ABOUT THIS EPISODE
This episode contains two interviews. One is with Yvonne Chu and Tay Stenson of the Onandaga Earth Corps in Syracuse, New York and the other is with Bob Randall, a permaculture icon in Houston, Texas.
The OEC is a local non profit with focus is to empower young people to engage in community service and learn life skills. Yvonne and Tay explain projects and partners for OEC and the benefits OEC has delivered to the community. Both Yvone and Tay elaborate on the how OEC has changed lives for the better. The conversation describes a variety of projects OEC has taken on in Syracuse such as tree planting, garden building and creek restoration. Other items touched on are the prospects of a new national Climate Corp as well as how OEC might partcipate in the reclamation of a possible removal of an 1 1/2 miles of elevated interstate highway in central Syracuse.
Bob describes his work in Houston building urban food systems. He starts at home, certainly a pioneer of suburban permaculture, starting his own sub tropical food forest in the mid 1980's. Bob describes his years with Urban Harvest, and its many projects to start gardens and farmers markets all over Houston. Bob has been a main teacher and facilitator for Permaculture Design Courses in Houston. Bob is currently on the board of the Permaculture Institute of North America. Bob is also known for research and documentation of climate change and its effects on food production, with focus on Southeast Texas.
